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Miller, Hawthorne, and the Impacts of Public Morality

morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...

Golden Rule and Egoism

is the right thing to do, even if it will make life much more difficult for the individuals involved. Others suggest that the fetu...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Abortion from the Christian Perspective

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

'Theory of Moral Sentiment' by Adam Smith

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

Justification of the Iraq War and Other Alternative Perspectives

just cause war. According to Sterba, there are three criteria that constitute a just war. "There must be substantial aggressio...

Morality, Justice and Books I and II of The Republic by Plato

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

Comparative Analysis of Dworkin and Devlin on Morality in Society

way in which the ideas are created but rather because there is a lack of autonomy. He does not view morality as something that is ...

James Rachels on Morality

theorists equate it with the use of common sense. Again, it may be argued that homosexuality is not natural because the sexual org...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

The Plague by Albert Camus and the Ethics of Morality and Responsibility

what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...

La Traviata Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...

Immanuel Kant on Morality

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

Bible Morality and Warfare

war is used in both Old and New Testament texts, there is definitively a difference in the way in which this language is used and ...

Morality and Religion

In five pages this paper discusses how morality patterns are influenced by religion from political and government contexts. Four ...

Philosophical Look at David Hume and Plato

In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...

Humanist Moral Philosophy During the Renaissance

In nine pages this paper examines human nature and morality issues from the perspective of the Renaissance. Three sources are cit...

Social Solidarity and Emile Durkheim

In three pages this essay defines the concept of social solidarity as glimpsed from Emile Durkheim's perspective and then applied ...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Freud on Morality Imposed by the State

In eight pages this research paper discusses whether or not morality can be reinforced in citizens by the state in a comparative a...

Comparing Ethical Perspectives of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...

Good and Evil According to Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche

In three pages this paper examines morality principles in a comparison and contrasting of Civilization and Its Discontents by Freu...

Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess/Browning

This essay discusses Browning's exper use of dramatic monologue in Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess. Through the use of this...

Government and Morality

In seven pages this paper discusses morality in government in a consideration of former Attorney General Janet Reno's investigatio...

Political Leadership and Private Morality

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how private morality can influence political leadership in a consideration of integrity and ...